Maine Antique Digest, March 2017

Maine Antique Digest, March 2017 25-B

AUCTION -

25-B

This unusual

painted tin soldier

cap-shooting push

toy, 17" high, with

a roll of caps inside

his chest cavity,

sold for $2880

(est. $1000/1500).

It may be one-

of-a-kind or a

prototype.

This set of painted wood beer stein puppets that the Bil Baird

puppeteers used in 96 different commercials in the early 1960s

for the Utica Club beer brand produced by the West End

Brewing Company of Utica, New York, sold for $5040 (est.

$1000/2000). The set came with a series of five different lids

for Schultz, one of the main characters, a glass mug, and the

original traveling case. The tallest puppet is 17½".

Rare Meier ithographed tin Wright brothers style biplane penny

toy with a pilot and 3" wingspan sold for $2280 (est. $600/800) in

a soft penny toy market.

Bliss lithographed paper over wood

Monitor

warship, 25" long, sold for a surprising

$4080 (est. $600/800).

Exceptional Märklin painted tin doll pram, early style with

silk accordion canopy and turned wooden handle, the sides

decorated with an Art Nouveau floral motif, 7½" high x 8½"

long, sold for $1560 (est. $1500/2500). The price is considered a

good buy because they have brought more.

ves composition and wood clockwork Our New Clergyman black Americana

toy, in its original pine slide-lid box, with an excellent paper label, 10¾" high,

sold for $5040 (est. $3000/4000).

Gustav Dentzel carved and painted outside

row standard carousel horse, circa 1905,

with its original painted surface and with an

eagle-backed saddle and a sweet-faced horse,

57" high x 57" wide, sold for $20,400 (est.

$8000/12,000) to a couple in the salesroom

who were thrilled to get a classic Dentzel.

French C.B.G. Mignot diorama of Admiral Peary’s 1909 North Pole

expedition in its original box with three tiers of scenes of Arctic

life, 21" wide, sold for $4800 (est. $500/800). Not shown, a French

painted tin and white metal firefighting set made by FV, in its original

compartmentalized box, with a burning building, horse-drawn

pumper, people-drawn pumpers, a hose wagon, a fire house, and 26

firemen, 33¾" long, brought the same price, $4800 (est. $1000/1500).

This unusual German

painted tin steam toy

workshop, probably Bing,

with six workers under a

canopy using a drill press, a

table saw, a grinding wheel,

a chopping block, a saw, and

an anvil, sold for $1476 (est.

$200/400). Steam accessories

of this size and action are

desirable.

Exceptional cast-iron Cincinnati Stove Works

advertising plaque of a woman riding sidesaddle,

circa 1903, inscribed “Trademark”

on the painted

red neck banner and “Cincinnati Stove Works”

on the saddle blanket, 27¾" high x 41½" wide,

sold for $6000 (est. $6000/8000).